Soul Sacrifice Delta will be first to arrive on May 13th, and we’ll confirm more details around Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines and Freedom Wars in the coming months. For now, I’ll hand over to the games’ respective producers to tell you more about each title. And then later today look out for an interview with JAPAN Studio chief Allan Becker.

Soul Sacrifice Delta

Soul Sacrifice Delta is the ultimate edition of Soul Sacrifice with tons of new content and improvements. Grim, the faction who believes in neutrality in all things, joins the blood thirsty Avalon and the merciful Sanctuary, and adds a third angle to bring the Delta in Soul Sacrifice. Grim’s beliefs, rooted in the prophecy they will seek to realise, will bring about irrevocable changes to the world as we know it.

The concept of faction is now at the heart of the game with players able to join the side of their choice, each with their own strengths and play styles. Players from each faction can now register their overall progress.

Soul Sacrifice Delta brings a lot of new content as well, with new Archfiends inspired by dark retellings of classic fairy tales, new sorcerers, arenas, spells and even more quests.

We have also made many improvements to the game design and systems: the graphics engine has been optimized, some arenas are now dynamic with weather effects and structural changes during battle, the spells system has been refined and allows for more collaborative and deeper gameplay.

We’ve also improved the AI of the Archfiends, who are now more vicious than ever. Finally, we’ve taken character customization to a new level, with the ability to mix custom parts and accessories.

Save data from Soul sacrifice including story progression, costumes, offerings, sigils, black rites, life/soul essence and lacrima (up to 10,000) will carry over to Soul Sacrifice Delta! So, if you transfer your save data from Soul Sacrifice, the story progression will carry over and you can continue on with your adventure in Soul Sacrifice Delta.

So that’s Soul Sacrifice Delta in a nutshell, but please stay tuned for more information soon. – Kumi Yuasa

Freedom Wars

We’re excited to finally announce that Freedom Wars is coming to North America! Some of you may have caught wind of the team working on this title, but JAPAN Studio, Shift and Dimps have joined forces to create an action-packed RPG on PlayStation Vita!

Freedom Wars is set in a dystopian world which harbors prisoners, each with a million-year sentence set from birth. You take on the role of a prisoner, forced to fight for your freedom by completing rescue missions that will reduce your seemingly insurmountable prison sentence.

Supported by a robust multiplayer suite, up to four players can play via Ad-Hoc and eight players via Online to fight civilian Abducters; the more civilians you set free, the shorter your sentence becomes. In addition to the challenging co-op gameplay, you’ll be pleased to know that the game has many customizable features ranging from weapon load-outs to the protagonist itself! Check out our new trailer and make sure to stay tuned for more news on Freedom Wars, launching later this year! – Dais Kawaguchi

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines

Next up we have Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines which is one that you JRPG fans need to have on your radar. “What does ‘Oreshika’ mean?”, I hear you cry. Actually the full title in Japanese is ‘Ore no Shikabane wo Koete Yuke’ which means something along the lines of ‘Go Forth Over My Dead Body’.

In case you haven’t guessed it by now it’s an RPG in which you take charge of an ancient Japanese clan that have been cursed with a maximum lifespan of just 2 years. Your task is to lead the clan on their quest to lift the curse and enlist the help of gods inspired by Japanese mythology to make sure each new generation of the clan is more powerful than the last.

We’ve got some screenshots to show off the beautiful Japanese art style of the characters and environments, but it looks even more fantastic on the PS Vita screen! We’ve got lots more details to share on this one very soon so stay tuned. – Tomoyo Kimura

Thanks, Sony! Thanks for listening to your customers! I’ll be waiting for the Freedom Wars Demo to come out, to be sure it is to my liking! I’ll pre-order Soul Sacrifice Delta, as soon as it’s available! And, looking forward to know more about the last game! Keep the good games coming to the West for PS Vita!
By the way, any idea if the Tales of for PS Vita would come to the West? There are many fans who wish to play Tales of Heats R, and Tales of Innocence R, which are exclusive to Japan… Myself included.

Totally unexpected and AWESOME! Now get Namco to get GE 2 over here. Heck, might as well get the long delayed Lord of Apocalypse too! Vita really is the premier place for Hunting style games, which I’ve become rather addicted to these past years. They offer the thrills of MMORPG style collection and community play, with none of the epeen nonsense you find in those games. In fact, the communities are downright helpful for the most part.

Oh, and we’re past the point of offering digital-preorders on Vita games. This shouldn’t be as big of an issue as it is, especially with every Vita game having a digital release. Day one preorders. C’mon Sony.

Super psyched for Oreshika! Been following it for months and will be a day one purchase. I will join the everyone else is asking that the original Japanese voices be left in or available as a DLC option like Soul Sacrifice.

Nice very nice,more games are always welcome…too much RPG though but whatever,good job guys and Japanstudio are a beast of devs…one of the best in the business…so I got a question:Any chance to bring that ” htoL#NiQ – Hotarunonikki “game to NA?….that game looks damn great.

Thanks for bringing these over, specially Freedom wars, been waiting for this title quite some time.

Only thing who would top this is an official EU/NA release of Sword Art Online, granted hte taiwaneese version releasing next month contains English but would much more rater have a proper release in my own regions.

Awesome 3 games that aren’t 1st person shooters (althought killzone my favorite vita shooter and Dead Nations looks promising) more JRPG please. And that still leaves out God Eater 2, Gravity Rush 2, J-Star Victory Vs, Phantasy Star Nova etc. I hope they all get a chance to make it over here. i would love to see something like Legend of Dragoon 2, “MegaMan Legend” or even a White Knight Chronicles exclusive for vita.

And SS Delta is digital only. Thus I remove my happiness and replace it with disgust and frustration. At this rate, Oreshika is definitely going to be digital only. Freedom Wars is the only one with hope for retail availability.

Learn how to actually work within the niche fanbase Sony. You’d think you’d research more after the stupidity over passing on Demon’s Souls. The importing on that game was crazy. Yet you were oblivious, and thus Atlus reaped the rewards on that and Bamco took it out from under you.

The Vita will continue to be with “no games” when there are no games on any retailer’s lists. Not just on store shelves, but in amazon/gamestop/whatever’s website. Not even a limited, retail exclusive release like Bamco is likely doing with Tales of Hearts and is doing with One Piece Unlimited World Red. How’s it feel to be the worst publisher on your own platform?

The Vita is the best handheld console for modern JRPGs. Sony need to push devs to make games for it. I was sad to only have Persona 3 and 4 on it, I was glad to see FF X/X-2 HD coming too. Now I can’t wait for this new IP.

Wow, what a great news for the Vita owners, can’t wait for Freedom Wars, and Soul Sacrifice Delta…but what really impressed me was that Oreshika it’s gonna be localized, i’m a super fan of the art style of that game, i only can say…hell yeah!! (sorry for my bad english, i’m from Mexico xD)